China’s Aid Diplomacy to Central Asian Countries and Its Influence

Abstract

The Central Asian countries as referred to in this chapter are Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan; these countries are adjacent to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China to the east, Iran and Afghanistan to the south, Russia to the north, and Russia and Azerbaijan to the west across the Caspian Sea; the total area is about 4,000,000 square kilometers, and the population is about 60 million.